Why is Quicktime freezing?

How do I stop this happening?

Mac mini, macOS 26.2

Posted on Dec 30, 2025 10:48 AM

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Paul Downie Author

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Posted on Jan 7, 2026 11:39 AM

Just so everyone knows: Quickltime freezing when Pages is in use, turns out to be an issue with corespotlightd chewing up CPU resources.

Going by what was listed in these posts — My M4 Mac mini overheating and freezing a… - Apple Community

and Entire System Freezes; Mac OS 26.2, M4 Ma… - Apple Community — I had to empty the contents of every folder in ~/Library/Metadata/Corespotlight, then restart my machine, and let Spotlight re-index my machine.

That seems to have solved the problem.

But I will only know for sure, when I next start recording.

(So @Gandolf243 knows, I’m using an M4 series Mac mini, running the recently released macOS 26.2 Tahoe, and the fans — I don’t know that there any any in this model — didn’t kick in.)

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Paul Downie Author

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Jan 25, 2026 8:56 AM in response to etresoft

Right …

I’ve got a YouTube channel, where I do a daily brain teaser quiz.

The ‘scripts’ are each day’s questions for the next month: the Quicktime movies are me, reading out the questions.

The 18gb Time Machine drive is used to back both the main hard drive, and the 12gb drive: used for my Music library, and my movie file: some four terabytes all told.

The stuff on the external drive adds up to some 6.7 terabytes of material, including the media files.

(Yeah, they’re HDDs, rather than SSDs. External SSDs would be a *little* expensive …)

brbo

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Mar 4, 2026 4:23 PM in response to Paul Downie

Thank you kindly for the update. Good to know your workflow is back to normal. Cheers :-)

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